[RESOLVED] Float Right and Margin-Right ???

[Jigabyte]

Hi Peeps,

I have two divs; one floats left and the other floats right so they run next to each other. They are both in a container div. I want to bring my right div in by 20px but when I use margin-right: 20px or padding-right: 20px it does not seem to do anything. Here is the CSS:-

#ctl00_Content_ContentPage_Links
{
	padding-right: 41px;
	width: 200px;	
	color: black;
	float: right;
	text-decoration: none;
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 8pt;
	font-weight: bold;
	background-color:Lime;
}

Thanks again for any help in my long struggle with layouts,

Jiggy!

[brin351]

Use > margin-right:41px;

padding is internal to the element and by default everything will be aligned left in the div so right padding will not do anything.

if margin-right does not work then you have another style or something effecting the div that's overriding it

[Jigabyte]

Hi Mate,

I think I know what was happening; I think the margin-right is putting a margin-right inside the div and not the outside. I put a margin-right on the container div and it worked.

Thanks for your help,

Jiggy!